Saturday, March 30, 2013

Re: [IAC#RG] HOW TO WEED OUT CRIMINALS FROM PARLIAMENT AND ASSEMBLIES ?

Dear Mr. Lalit Mohan Pattnaik,

You have suggested that corrupt persons and criminals should  be defeated in the polls.  You have further said "  you have to take active part in election. The present situation in politics is such because the intellectual do not take part in election but only discuss".

It  is not possible to defeat the  corrupt persons and criminals  in the polls,  in view of their extensive money power and muscle power and large segment of the national population still remaining at nil or low literacy level and  political parties with many corrupt persons or criminals in their  fold,  skilfully aligning between themselves as one front or the other and leaving the citizens with no choice other than voting to  any one of the  front.

For your information, I am a Chemical Engineer with long years of service in India and abroad and   editor of  a monthly journal Nandini Voice For The Deprived (www.nandinivoice.org)  dedicated to the cause of deprived persons and probity in public life.  I did  contest in the 2009 Parliamentary election from South Chennai constituency.  This constituency has large segment of voters with good literacy.  I contested without money power and muscle power and openly declared that my total election expense would be only Rs. 3 lakhs and I strictly adhered to this.  Local media gave me reasonably good publicity  and highlighted my community service particularly to differently abled persons and others.  I lost the election badly and lost my deposit.

The obvious solution is to prevent the corrupt persons and criminals from contesting the elections . The Chief Election Commissioner has correctly said recently that those against whom criminal charges have been admitted in the court for hearing should not be allowed to contest the elections.  By this logic, only those persons will be prevented from contesting against whom  there would be prima  facie case and court would admit the case for hearing.  This is a democratic procedure.


N.S.Venkataraman

Nandini Voice For The Deprived

Email:- nsvenkatchennai@gmail.com




On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Lalit Patnaik <lmpatnaik@gmail.com> wrote:
Until and unless a man is proved anti social, he can fight election even from a Jail. That's his birth right as per democracy. No ECI can debar whom you think as anti social. It needs to be proved and judgement given against them.
What is needed that you generate a public opinion against them and see that they are defeated in election. For that you have to take active part in Election.
The present situation in politics is such because the intellectual do not take part in election but only discuss. That's why they are being ruled by their inferiors.


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Vidyut Kale <wide.aware@gmail.com> wrote:
This ought to be of relevance to our interest.


The 'counter-affidavit' submitted by the Union government to the Supreme Court in the Ashok Chavan case is a scandal. Simply put, it argues that the Election Commission of India has no power to disqualify a candidate on the basis of his or her poll expenditure accounts, even if those have been falsified. It holds that the ECI's power to disqualify a candidate "arises only in the event of failure to lodge an account of expenses and not for any other reason…" The government is, in the process, calling for a radical and dangerous change in the way polls are conducted in India. If there is one issue on which there is a consensus in the country, it is on the damage inflicted on free and fair elections by the unbridled rise of money power. Now the government argues that the "correctness or otherwise" of the accounts is no concern of the body that conducts and regulates elections. The United Progressive Alliance government is behaving with the ECI the way it has with the Comptroller & Auditor General. It is trying to bat its way out of ugly scams and scandals by seeking to curb the independence of these constitutional bodies. This is dangerous for accountability and for democracy, given the signal role assigned to the Election Commission in our political system.

Background story:
 

228) Is the 'Era of Ashok' a new era for 'news'       P                                             

(online breaking news Nov.29, print Nov.30
http://www.hindu.com/2009/11/30/stories/2009113056930100.htm                       Nov. 30, 2009
230) 'It is a shame to misguide people'                      P
http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article69681.ece                              Dec. 24, 2009
online, Dec. 23
 

236) Paid news undermining democracy: Press Council report

http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/sainath/article407201.ece

http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/22/stories/2010042252351100.htm                       April 22, 2010

(Beta version appeared April 21, 2010)

245) Private Treaties harm fair, unbiased news: SEBI        
http://www.hindu.com/2010/06/19/stories/2010061951881300.htm                       June 19, 2010
247) The Empire strikes back  --  and how!
 
254) ECI gets tough on electoral abuses
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article818527.ece                         Oct. 8, 2010

 252) New ECI division to tackle 'paid news', money power

267) Censorship by pay-to-print
 

293) Paid News claims its price

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/article2559714.ece                  Oct. 22, 2011

 

292) And the pay-to-print saga resumes

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/sainath/article2523649.ece     Oct. 10, 2011

 

322) 'Yes, we spent money on paid news ads'

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/yes-we-spent-money-on-paid-news-ads/article4355524.ece                      Jan. 29, 2013







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With Regards
Er. Lalit Mohan Pattnaik,

Bhubaneswar, Odisha

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